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Joshua 19:13

in Joshua 19

From there it crossed eastward to Gath-hepher and to Eth-kazin; it extended to Rimmon and curved around toward Neah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and from thence it passed along eastward to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretcheth unto Neah;

KJV

And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah–hepher, to Ittah–kazin, and goeth out to Remmon–methoar to Neah;

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This verse in Joshua 19

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher,.... Which was the native place of Jonah the prophet, 2Ki 14:25; and where Jerom says (r) his grave was shown, and was a small village in his time two miles from Sippore, then called Diocaesarea: to Ittahkazin; of this place we have no account elsewhere, but it was not far from the former: and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah; where the eastern border ended.

This site's exposition

the third lot came up

on Joshua 19:10-16

Zebulun is drawn before Issachar although Issachar is the elder brother, and Jacob names the two in that same reversed order at Genesis 49:13-14. Gath-hepher at verse 13 is the home town of Jonah the son of Amittai, named as such at 2 Kings 14:25, so a boundary list fixes where a prophet came from. The Bethlehem of verse 15 sits in Galilee and is a different town from the Bethlehem of Judah at Micah 5:2, which is why the older commentators mark it every time. Nahallal in the same verse returns at Judges 1:30 as Nahalol, among the places Zebulun never cleared of Canaanites.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Gittah (or Gath)- hepher, the birthplace of the prophet Jonah 2Ki 14:25, is probably the modern village of El-Meshhad, where the tomb of the prophet is still shown, a short way from Nazareth, on the road to Tiberias. Remmon-methoar to Neah - Read “and goeth out to Remmon, which reacheth to Neah.” (See the margin.) Rimmon, a Levitical city Jos 21:35; 1Ch 6:77 is probably the modern “Rummaneh,” in the plain of “El Buttauf,” about six miles north of Nazareth.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Although they do not seem at first to have touched on the western shore--a part of Manasseh running north into Asher (Jos 17:10) --they afterwards did, according to the prediction of Moses (De 33:19). The extent from north to south cannot be very exactly traced; the sites of many of the places through which the boundary line is drawn being unknown.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Gittah-hepher - The same as Gath-hepher, the birth-place of the prophet Jonah.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

East of Gitoh-cheifer. To the east of Gat-hacheifer which is the name of the city of [the prophet] Yonah ben Amtai.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Joshua 19:13:1, via Sefaria, The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּמִשָּׁ֤םand from there

    umishamH8033 →834 times

  • עָבַר֙it passes on

    ʾavarH5674 →556 times

  • קֵ֣דְמָהeast -ward

    kedemahH6924 →87 times

  • מִזְרָ֔חָהeast -ward

    mizrachahH4217 →74 times

  • גִּתָּ֥הGath towards

    gitahH1662 →

  • חֵ֖פֶרHepher

    cheferH1662 →

  • עִתָּ֣הEth towards

    ʾitahH6278 →

  • קָצִ֑יןKazin

    katzinH6278 →

  • וְיָצָ֛אand it goes out

    veyatza'H3318 →1067 times

  • רִמּ֥וֹןRimmon

    rimonH7417 →16 times

  • הַמְּתֹאָ֖רwhich is turned

    hametoarH8388 →8 times

  • הַנֵּעָֽה׃<the> Neah

    haneahH5269 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Kings 14:25

    This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 3:17

      The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

    • Numbers 13:21

      So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.

    • Jonah 1:1

      Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,

    • 1 Kings 8:65

      So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more…

    • Matthew 12:39–40

      Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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